Passion Leads......

Do you know that feeling when you feel like writing, but you are too lazy to do so? Sometimes I have that feeling but, unfortunately the laziness in me wins each time. Anyway as I promised you in my last blog, am gonna finalise with my most important reason for coming to this very cold country. Are you excited? I bet you are, because I am yet I know the reason. Okay, here we go. My very important reason why I made it here is the passion I have to work with children.Surprised? I know, I have loved children since time immemorable.

I remember when I was young I loved children so much, that I could gather them around my home which used to annoy my elder sister because she wasn't into children as I was. I remember receiving a lot of gifts from different parents, which I still have till to now. I made a school where I could teach every holiday, I sang with these children, we played together, we learnt different things together and so on. Most people in my neighbourhood thought that the love I had for children and the way I connected with them was gonna make me a teacher. But unfortunately it wasn't my dream. I didn't even know which career I wanted to pursue until after my High school, but the urge to work with children increased. Unfortunately, back home in Uganda most Universities didn't offer Childhood studies. So the only way to work with children was taking a counselling and guidance course, the course wasn't offered in Makerere University and it is the University where my aunt who was gonna pay my tuition wanted me to go, so I lost.

When time to apply for a scholarship came, I looked for a childhood course. I put in my all when I was writing my motivation letter. As I wrote it, I saw my dream of working with children getting closer to me. Hearing all that is happening in my country especially when it comes to children. It reaps my heart out and to know that there is nothing I can do to help them makes me so sad. Things like rape of girls as young as three months old. Turning out this offer was giving up such children, disappointing them and if I had given up my scholarship which by the way, is a MPhil in Childhood studies. I would have hated myself, because I would have given up what I love most for what I seconded. I chose to follow my heart, my passion. Hope you all do. As Harriet Tubman says, that every great dream begin with a dreamer and you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. I chose to reach for the stars and maybe one day I will be able to change the world. 

Thanks for reading. In my next episode I will tell you how my passion was motivated. see you then. :)